Michael Caine Quotes
Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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I'm covered up, but I'm still getting these comments that say I shouldn't be. But the girls who wear the bikinis, they're being told they're too revealing! Enough. It's their body, their choice.
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I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.
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Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
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I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.
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Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
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When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.
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I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic. Every time I've followed my gut it's been better than when I've tried to do what I was supposed to do.
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Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
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Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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'It always seemed to me they’re sort of alike,' he said, 'magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.'
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You immediately hear the word 'Merlin,' you think magic, you think adventure, excitement - you also think 'an old man.'
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I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.
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It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.
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I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!
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You don't have to walk alone.
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Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary. But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it back.
